StorPool 20.0 Change Log¶

20.0 revision 20.0.325.7d16d036f¶

Released 01 Feb 2023

Gathering additional data in storpool_stat for the installed package versions for OpenNebula and CloudStack orchestrations.
Increase the number of NVMe drives for a single node from 16 to 64.

Released 11 Jan 2023

The balancer tool now requires one of -F, -A or -R options to proceed, see Rebalancing StorPool in the User Guide.
Removed support for Debian 9.
storpool_nvmed service now waits for all NVMe devices to be initialized by the OS, which fixes an issue with NVMe’s not getting back in the cluster upon reboot.
MetaV1 compatibility is removed, minimum version for supported upgrade is now 19.01.2995.15aa353e8.
Increase gratuitious ARP interval in storpool_iscsi to workaround broken behavior in Xen Server 7.x.

Released 19 Dec 2022

storpool_mgmt - fix for crash on an attempt to soft eject a disk with multicluster attached volume.

Released 12 Dec 2022

Adds support for Samsung PM1733 NVMe.
Fix ARP resolve on backup interface in missing-cross-switch-link iSCSI multipath case.
Gathering additional data in storpool_stat:
- status of iSCSI controllers connections.
- kdump service status.
- present kernel command line parameters.
- present sysctl configuration.
- status for all systemd units.

Released 30 Nov 2022

storpool_iscsi:
- scalability improvements with 1000+ exports.
- decreased failover times.
Automatically detect NVMe devices with StorPool signatures (removes the SP_NVME_PCI_ID configuration option).
Removed support for pre-AMD Zen-based processors (the amdfam10 architecture).
Fix the storpool_vcctl tool causing failure with status volume command.
Fix in storpool_server for induced latency during entries aggregation.

Released 20 Oct 2022

Adds support for Dell branded Samsung PM1725 and XS1715 NVMe devices.
Add handling for non-null-terminated NVMe serial and product numbers.
New default latency threshold values (more at In-server disk and journal performance tracking).

Released 03 Oct 2022

storpool_server detects new trim operations that only trim over old ones and completes them immediately.

Released 08 Sep 2022

storpool_volumecare - significant performance speedup in large backup clusters.
storpool_havm - highly available virtual machine service helper (more here).
storpool_mgmt - fix for crash on an attempt to rebase a volume or a snapshot to an already destroyed snapshot.